Multiresistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa serogroup O:11 outbreak in an intensive care unit

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 621-628

  Tassios, Panayotis T ^a   Gennimata, Vassiliki ^a   Spaliara Kalogeropoulou, Lemonia ^b   Kairis, Dimitris ^c   Koutsia, Chryssa ^b   Vatopoulos, Alkiviadis C ^a   Legakis, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bacteriocin typing; Nosocomial infection; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Serotyping

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CEFTAZIDIME; IMIPENEM; PYOCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0031450781     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1997.tb00468.x     Document Type: Article

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